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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Child's Play Kitchen Towel Set (crochet)

I had a request for a child's play kitchen towel set in a variety of "neutral" colors to be for boy and girl and here is what I made. Two pot holders- one orange with red trim, and one the opposite, a green and yellow striped washcloth, a sponge in green and yellow (just like the real ones!), and a brown dish towel. I didn't have patterns for these, I just thought how I wanted it to look in the end and made them up.

*The pot holders are done with a "sc, dc, sc, dc....all across" stitch pattern to give it texture, then bordered with a SC trim.*The washcloth is one row DC, one row SC, then switch colors and do the same thing...repeat to the end.*The sponge is all SC on the yellow side, then a basic popcorn stitch for the green side. I didn't count rows or anything, just kinda matched them up as I was going along...I did make the yellow a tiny bit bigger so that it would be "poofy" when I sewed the two halves together and have room to stuff for depth/thickness.*And lastly, the brown towel is a ripple stitch! You can use any ripple stitch you wanted for the effect... mine is a "basic double crochet ripple". :)

If anyone wants to make up a set like this for your own, I hope the above "notes" help out on how I did mine. :)

*If you are interested in any of the items I've posted or would like something made, you're always welcome to contact me and I can see what we can do, whether it means making a special listing to put up on Etsy or selling directly (using Paypal or something)...never hurts to ask. :)